Adolescents
Haug S et al, BMC Public Health, 12(1)
BACKGROUND:
Particularly in groups of adolescents with lower educational level the smoking prevalence is still high and constitutes a serious public health problem. There is limited evidence of effective smoking cessation interventions in this group. Individualised text messaging (SMS) based interventions are promising to support smoking cessation and could be provided to adolescents irrespective of their motivation to quit. The aim of the current paper is to outline the study protocol of a trial testing the efficacy of an SMS based intervention for smoking cessation in apprentices.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Adolescents, Effectiveness, mHealth, Smoking, SMS
Andrew Tillett, The West Australian
“A family group has attacked plans to allow children as young as 14 to stop their parents from accessing their personal electronic health records.
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15 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): Access, Adolescents, Patient, sealed-envelope
Peter Jean, The Canberra Times
“Teenagers will be able to stop their parents accessing their personally controlled electronic health records which are due this year.
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15 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): Access, Adolescents, Patient
Garrett CC et al, BMC Infectious Diseases, 11(1)
BACKGROUND:
Young people are disproportionately affected by sexually transmissible infections in Australia but face barriers to accessing sexual health services, including concerns over confidentiality and, for some, geographic remoteness. A possible innovation to increase access to services is the use of telemedicine.
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27 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Australia | Tag(s): Adolescents, Teleconsultation, Telemedicine
Furber GV et al, The Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(1)
BACKGROUND
Mobile phones play a central role in the lives of young people and are being increasingly recognized as valuable tools in health care. However, there is a paucity of studies exploring the use of mobile phones in youth outreach mental health services. Our outreach team’s experience is that enabling youth to access their therapist directly through mobile phone improves engagement and retention, and short message service (SMS) in particular, is a useful tool for coordinating appointments. The purpose of this study was to audit the content of SMS exchanges between therapists and clients and to investigate the extent of inappropriate SMS use.
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24 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Australia | Tag(s): Adolescents, Cellphone, Mental Health, mHealth, Physician-Patient Relationship, SMS
Gold J et al, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, 38(4)
Background:
The use of new technologies, such as mobile phones and internet, has increased dramatically in recent years. Text messages offer a novel method of sexual health promotion to young people who are the greatest users of new technology and are also at high risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Methods:
In January 2008, young people aged between 16 and 29 years were recruited from a music festival in Melbourne, Australia. They completed a short survey and were asked to provide their mobile phone numbers. Participants received fortnightly short messaging service (SMS) relating to sexual health for 4 months, and then completed an online follow-up survey. Survey data were weighted to account for those lost to follow-up. McNemar’s test was used to compare changes in survey responses.
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30 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Australia | Tag(s): Adolescents, mHealth, SMS
HealthCanal
“Text messaging and adolescents don’t always mix well, but researchers at National Jewish Health hope text messages can spur teenagers to take their asthma medications more reliably.
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24 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adherence, Adolescents, Asthma, Chronic Diseases, Medication, mHealth, SMS
Mitchell KJ et al, Health Education Research, 2011
The increase in cell phone use has manifested a growing interest in using this technology for health promotion. The portability and ‘always on’ features of the cell phone, along with increasing capability for the devices to carry and transfer data suggest that they will reach more people than computers and the Internet in coming years. Self-reported quantitative survey data from 1503 secondary school students in Mbarara, Uganda collected in 2008-2009 suggest that 27% currently have cell phones and about half (51%) of all students and 61% of those who owned a cell phone believe that they would access a text messaging-based HIV prevention program if it were available.
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4 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Uganda | Tag(s): Adolescents, Cellphone, Health Information, HIV, SMS
Read JL, Shortell SM. JAMA, 2011
Anyone who has observed someone deeply absorbed in a video game can appreciate that use of these games is a uniquely powerful interaction. For the player, time stands still and self-consciousness disappears. Csikszentmihalyi described this state as “flow.” His concept was exemplified by mountain climbers living in the moment of ascent or surgeons lost in a delicate and demanding task. He could just as well have been describing what happens when individuals engage with some of today’s interactive games.
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30 March 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Adolescents, Behaviour, Children, Education, games, Internet
Chira P et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 43(5 Suppl)
Living Profiles is a health media platform in development that aggregates multiple data flows to help teens with special healthcare needs (SHCN), particularly with regard to self-management and independence. A teen-oriented personal health record (PHR) incorporates typical teen behaviors and attitudes about health and wellness, encompasses how teens perceive and convey quality of life, and aligns with data related to their chronic medical condition. We have conceived a secure personalized user interface called the Quality of Life Timeline, which will assist with the transition from pediatric care to an adult provider through modules that include a mood meter, reminder device, and teleport medicine. With this personalized PHR, teens with SHCN can better understand their condition and its effects on daily activities and life goals and vice versa; additionally, use of this PHR allows for better information sharing and communication between providers and patients. The use of a teen-oriented tool such as Living Profiles can impact teens’ overall quality of life and disease self-management, important attributes for a successful transition program.
25 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adolescents, Care Management, Patient Management, Quality, Self Management
The Royal Academy of Engineering
“Breathing Country was a nationwide public engagement programme about Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) and their use in medical research. A suite of activities were delivered as part of the programme, including the development and UK tour of a play and post-performance debate about EPRs, the provision of online supporting materials and a public attitudes research project.
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22 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Report, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Adolescents, Privacy, Research
Diamond JM, Bloch RM. Telemedicine and e-Health, 16(6)
BACKGROUND:
The limited number of mental health specialists for children has led to an increased need for child and adolescent psychiatrists to provide primary care consultations and treatment recommendations. Psychiatric assessments and treatments provided via two-way videoconferencing (telepsychiatry) have been used to increase the availability of child psychiatrists. This article reviews the literature on telepsychiatry assessment of children and adolescents.
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18 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Adolescents, Children, literature, Mental Health, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry
Miguel, Salud con cosas
“Curioseando la revista Atención Primaria nos tropezamos con el artículo “Uso de Internet por parte de los adolescentes de Gijón (Asturias) como fuente de información sobre salud”.
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4 August 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | Tag(s): Adolescents, Health Information, Internet
Janine Budding, Medicalfacts
“Veel Amsterdamse jongeren die lijden aan psychische problemen kunnen sinds vandaag anoniem een mentale check doen op internet. De Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg (GGZ) Amsterdam lanceerde vandaag de website MindMasters.nl.
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2 May 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): Adolescents, Mental Health, Website
aguitarte, Somos Medicina
“Durante el evento de Salud 2.0 hice referencia a la mentalidad hacker aplicada a la Medicina. Los ingenieros de la Universidad Rutgers han tomado este concepto de forma literal y han hackeado una Play Station 3. El objetivo, ayudar a jóvenes que sufren parálisis cerebral a mejorar sus funciones motoras manuales.
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28 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Adolescents, Autism, games, Stroke, Telemedicine, Telerehabilitation
Myers KM et al, J Telemed Telecare, 16(3)
Seattle Children’s Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital that has provided telepsychiatry to seven partner sites in the north-west since 2001. Service utilization data, patient demographics and diagnoses were collected for the period from the service inception in October 2001 until November 2007. During the study period, 701 patients were treated with a mean of 2.8 appointments per patient (SD 1.9). Five psychiatrists and four psychologists provided care. Utilization varied across referring sites and was largely dependent upon the availability of telepsychiatrists, although the degree of support from administration and stakeholders also contributed to the success of the service. A total of 190 primary care practitioners referred patients to telepsychiatry, including 106 family physicians and 71 paediatricians. Paediatricians referred to the service more frequently than family physicians (t = 2.8, P < 0.05).
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13 April 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adolescents, Children, Primary Care, Telemedicine, Telepsychiatry
Nelson, Eve-Lynn, and Thao Bui, Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2010
Because of the overwhelming maldistribution of mental health specialists in metropolitan areas and the many underserved families living in rural settings, rural areas are natural homes for the use of telemedicine or videoconferencing technology for clinical services.
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27 March 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adolescents, Children, Mental Health, Rural, Telemedicine, Videoconferencing
ProjectHealthDesign
“Visual story from the Project healthdesign grantee team from Stanford University who worked with the Art Center College of Design to help adolescents with chronic illnesses assume greater responsibility for their health by exploring a personal health application that fits within teenagers lives.”
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23 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, Video | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adolescents, Chronic Diseases, phr
News Blaze
“With the average teen spending approximately nine hours a week on social networking sites, the UCLA School of Public Health has partnered with Health Net of California to develop a health literacy training intervention using social media to encourage adolescents ages 13 to 17 to utilize their health care more effectively.
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10 February 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adolescents, Social Media
RedOrbit
“Remotely monitored in-home virtual reality videogames improved hand function and forearm bone health in teens with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, helping them perform activities of daily living such as eating, dressing, cooking, and other tasks for which two hands are needed.
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12 January 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Adolescents, games, Rehabilitation, Video, Virtual
